Here are the latest Chrysler (VERY DEPRESSING) sales figures from February 2006. The Crossfire is the worst performing vehicle in the Chrysler product line. Sales of the car declined by 54% to a total # of 412 units per month compared to 902 per month last year. The next lowest car in the line-up, the Sebring, sold 7,897 units per month. The highest sales were for the 300 which sold over 18,000 units per month.

DISAPPOINTING NUMBERS FOR CHRYSLER CROSSFIRE

Sales and production of the Chrysler Crossfire continue to slow down, a signal that the lifespan of the reskinned Mercedes SLK sports car may soon be in question.

From a production peak of 35,700 in 2004, the car's second year on the market, output dropped to 12,500 last year and appears set to drop several thousand more this year.

Sales were 9,900 in 2005.

Sales have never matched production, and hundreds of the sleek little roadsters have been sold or leased to DaimlerChrysler employees in Windsor and elsewhere at discounts.

Production is now so low that DaimlerChrysler Inc. has been forced to negotiate a compensation deal for Karmann of Germany, the coach builders who assemble the Crossfire on contract for DCX at their plant in Osnabrueck, Germany.

The companies announced Monday they are trying to work out a deal. Reuters reports that Chrysler has booked accounting charges of $119 million US to cover the costs of the declining Crossfire.

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DaimlerChrysler is negotiating to pay Karmann to halve production of the sports coupe in the wake of dismal sales.

STUTTGART—DaimlerChrysler may pay German coachworks Karmann more than $119 million to cut production of the Chrysler Crossfire sport coupe because of declining sales, says the Financial Times.

The automaker sold only 871 Crossfires in the first two months of this year.

Karmann’s deal calls for building more than 30,000 Crossfires a year until 2008, the paper said. The company assembled 34,000 of the two-seaters at its Osnabrück, Germany, factory in 2004. But dealer inventories have risen since that point, and output dropped to 12,500 cars in 2005.

Looks like the writing is on the walls guys... Good bye Crossfire.